Deaths in the Series

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> Sherry:
> I also thought the death of Tonks was unnecessary, and since we didn't get
> to see any of Teddy's life, the supposed reason being that it is like Harry
> and that Teddy could grow up quite differently, doesn't really matter.
> 
> Dave:
> I agree.  In general, I was very disappointed in the direction JKR went 
> with Tonks -- She started out as a sprightly, somewhat sassy, 
> "Moliere-Maid" type, which I loved.  But then she made Tonks into this 
> tragic character whose intense (perhaps codependent) love for Remus 
> trumped everything.  And we know from interviews that killing off Remus 
> and Tonks was an eleventh-hour decision on JKR's part, in order to make 
> some trivial contrast between Harry and Teddy which, as Sherry points 
> out, has little or no impact on the reader.



Alla:

Oooo you know what? If we look at this from this angle, I may have to agree that death of Tonks can be counted as gratuitous. I now remember that JKR may have mentioned it as a reason and sorry, does not fly with me. As Sherry said, my emotional attachment to Teddy pretty much equals zero - Teddy who, basically. I do not hate him or anything, but I did not have time to form any emotional attachment to him, so any similarities between him and Harry do not really work for me, do not have the same emotional power.

I guess I am used to looking at Tonks and Remus' deaths first of all together and just the proof of the cruelty of war, which takes out the best people often and randomly and of course for me Remus was also just another adult who loved Harry and we cannot have any of those left alive. Such a tiresome trope in this subgenre of fantasy if you ask me, but well known trope nevertheless.